Lee Ranaldo Quotes

I love to play gigs.

My history is really playing live - not writing or recording.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

The best part of touring has to be playing shows.

I really wanted to make a record that would feel fun to play live.

We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.

I love watching live shows from different artists from different stages of their lives. I'm always interested in the mastery of the live performance.

Most of my career has been about standing on a stage performing music to an audience, and once the show is over, they go home and I go on to the next show.

I love live performance and have huge admiration for people who can really do it. It's the same with music: I'll play a record and think that I'm not really into country or ragga. But, if it's live and the musicians are good, I'll listen to pretty much anything.

I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

If you're a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When you're on television, you're removed from that.

To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

I still do a lot of shows with Brian Koonin, but we haven't had a full band lately.

I always tell people, 'The music's free. I get paid to travel.'

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

We've played everywhere since I started The Licks. We've played arenas, clubs, school cafeterias and bowling alleys. It doesn't matter where the venue is; we're gonna bring you the rock!

I love to perform. I love live shows.

I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.

Someday, I hope to do a jazz club tour.

I enjoyed the idea of going and playing live. My beef was always with Wings that we never played live enough.